creation of Iranian-American Babak Parviz, an electrical engineer at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. 2009 3-D camera The world's first digital camera, Fujifilm, introduced a 3-D digital camera: the FinePix Real 3D W1. The 10-megapixel FinePix has two lenses, set about as far apart as human eyes, which snap shots of an object from slightly different angles. Those images are then combined into one, creating the illusion of depth. Its 3-D images can be viewed — without clumsy 3-D glasses — on the camera's back LCD screen or displayed in a special digital photo frame. See also Timelines of United States inventions Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991) Related topics History of United States patent law Lemelson Foundation Lemelson–MIT Prize List of African American inventors and scientists List of Puerto Ricans List of inventors List of inventors killed by their own inventions List of Puerto Ricans in the United States Space Program Military invention NASA spinoff National Inventors Hall of Fame Native American contributions Science and technology in the United States Technological and industrial history of the United States Timeline of United States discoveries United States Patent and Trademark Office United States patent law Yankee ingenuity Footnotes Further reading Deitch, Joanne Weisman, "A Nation of Inventors", Carlisle, Massachusetts : Discovery Enterprises Limited, 2001 Haven, Kendall, "100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time", Westport, Connecticut : Libraries Unlimited, 2006 Hopping-Egan, Lorraine, "Inventors and Inventions", New York City, New York : Scholastic, Incorporated, 1997 Ngeow, Evelyn, "Inventors and Inventions", New York City, New York : Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2008 Philbin, Tom, "The 100 Greatest Inventions of All Time", New York City, New York : Kensington Publishing Incorporated, 2003 External links American Inventors Google: U.S. Patents Search PBS: They Made America MIT: Invention Dimension NASA: Scientific and Technical Information: NASA Spinoff National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation The Great Idea Finder United States Patent and Trademark Office Timeline Of United States Inventions 1992 List of United States inventions and discoveries United States United States inventions Inventions 1992